What is Plum Island?

Plum Island is an island located in the Atlantic Ocean, exactly in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. This place was named from the plums that grow along the coasts. 

Since 1659 this place has passed through the possession of more than twenty families. In 1899, after the Spanish American War, the island was bought in its totality by the United States, and the U.S. Army in 1897 set up a Coast Artillery there, called Fort Terry.

In this island is located the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) which was established by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1954.